Written answers
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Departmental Schemes
3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the residents (details supplied) of a property development will receive their €200 emergency benefit scheme...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Insurance Coverage
4. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if motorists involved in an accident with an uninsured or undetected vehicle will be covered by an organisation (details supplied) for...
- Bus Services
5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will look at providing a new bus route from Youghal to Midleton train station which would service...
- Haulage Industry
6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will include trucks driven by Irish taxpayers and registered to other European Union countries in line with European Union...
- Taxi Licences
7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a decision has been made on an application of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry for a rural hackney licence; and if he will...
- Dublin Airport Authority
8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the Dublin Airport Authority to explain and justify the recent huge increase in parking costs at Dublin Airport; and if...
- Electric Vehicles
9. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of fast chargers 50 and 43 and super-fast chargers 150 and 70 for electric vehicles that are currently available in County...
- Department of Finance
- Insurance Industry
13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received and reviewed correspondence from Tipperary-Cahir-Cashel Municipal District concerning the insurance costs incurred by community groups and...
- Tax Code
14. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Government has plans to reduce the taxation on petrol and diesel in order to ease the financial burden on both personal and commercial road users; and...
- Tax Rebates
15. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of additional specific income tax rebates for families placing their children in the care of registered providers given...
- Rental Sector
16. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to combat the exodus of small and accidental landlords from the private rented sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31034/22]
- Tax Code
17. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the extension of the 9% tax rate applying to hospitality sector given the significant headwinds faced by the sector in terms of rising energy...
- Tax Yield
18. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional revenue raised from capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax respectively when the rate increased from 25% to 30% and then to 33% for each...
- Insurance Industry
19. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to recent increases in holiday travel insurance charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31142/22]
- Tax Strategy Group
20. To ask the Minister for Finance when the tax strategy papers are expected to be finalised and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31287/22]
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
21. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Commission on taxation and welfare will complete its work; when it expects to publish its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31288/22]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Civil Service
22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when civil service mileage rates will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31028/22]
- Ministerial Staff
23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the number of special advisers of each Minister as well as the Taoiseach and Tánaiste; the related costs in tabular...
- Office of Public Works
24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the vacant properties currently owned by the Office of Public Works in east Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31095/22]
- Ukraine War
25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will disaggregate the estimated cost of €30,000 to service and accommodate each Ukrainian refugee for the year 2022; his...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Vacant Properties
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of actions from the National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy that have been fully completed; and if he will make a...
- Rental Sector
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rental inspections undertaken in the past 12 months; the number of these that were virtual inspections; and if he...
- Housing Schemes
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase homes from the Serviced Sites Fund and affordable housing funding respectively that have been...
- Electoral Process
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an issue in relation to a person (details supplied); if his Department has plans to address...
- Housing Schemes
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income limits under the Affordable Housing Fund scheme for homes with a market value of €200,000, €250,000,...
- Housing Provision
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new build social housing units delivered in 2021 and if he can provide a reason for the different figures...
- Housing Schemes
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the changes to the incremental tenant purchase scheme announced earlier this year have taken effect; if applicants can now...
- Housing Provision
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on Project Tosaigh; the procedures in place to ensure that any project availing of the scheme will...
- Traveller Accommodation
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of funding provided by his Department to each local authority to date in 2022 under the...
- Local Authorities
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of electric vehicles within each local authority fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31164/22]
- Foreshore Issues
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a foreshore application (details supplied); if a foreshore determination has been made; and if he will make a...
- Water Services
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for a three year delay in drawing down funding from his Department and progressing a group water scheme in (details...
- Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil an Chreat Náisiúnta um Pleanáil Mhuirí ar fáil trí Ghaeilge; muna bhfuil, cén...
- Grant Payments
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the division of the grant funding (details supplied) to Wexford County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications in respect of children (details supplied) will be expedited given that the children are travelling to a family...
- Foreign Birth Registration
47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff working on processing applications to the foreign birth register for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular...
- Passport Services
65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a child (details supplied) given that the target issue date has been exceeded and the date of travel...
- Foreign Birth Registration
127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on an application to the foreign births register (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff
129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the recruitment process of his Department in recruiting persons to positions as ambassadors; and if he will clarify...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the process in place for extra hours to be allocated to special needs assistants that are already in place in schools and...
- Schools Building Projects
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31159/22]
- School Staff
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter in relation to a teacher (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31161/22]
- Special Educational Needs
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for two new ASD classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31232/22]
- School Staff
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the impact that the pandemic has had on the ability of substitute teachers to qualify for the supplementary...
- Special Educational Needs
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied) who was refused SNA supports in their school; if she will review...
- School Staff
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that access to an English as an additional language teacher for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary was revoked; if her...
- State Examinations
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the concerns (details supplied) of students sitting the Leaving Certificate 2022 and their parents regarding...
- Schools Building Projects
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval to proceed will issue to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31342/22]
- School Staff
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider amending the qualifying terms, including the increment criteria, for primary school teachers applying for supplementary...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide assistance to a person (details supplied) in obtaining a review of their pension; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) was not approved; if this decision will be...
- Social Welfare Schemes
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31341/22]
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Funding
156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if funding will be provided to an accommodation provider (details supplied) to carry out safety works; and if he...
- Childcare Services
157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare fees will be capped for families who cannot qualify for the national childcare scheme and have more...
- Direct Provision System
159. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of adults and children that have received their leave to remain but continue to reside in...
- Care of the Elderly
160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give reassurance to older persons that their liberties will be protected if they are unable to...
- Refugee Resettlement Programme
161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of hotel rooms being used to accommodate refugees; the numbers of hotels, guestrooms and bed and...
- Departmental Strategies
162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the implementation of the action plan to support the National LGBTI+ Inclusion...
- Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial supports that are available to a family (details supplied) that is caring for an unaccompanied...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education and Training Boards
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some teachers in Kerry Education and Training Board on CID are on contracts while others have full contracts and all of them are...
- Labour Court
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he intends on implementing the Labour Court recommendation of March 2020 to regularise the contracts of adult education tutors and establish...
- EU Programmes
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Erasmus scheme will be expanded to the early years childcare and education sector to allow practitioner mobility; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship applications that are outstanding; the number of apprenticeship applications in the construction sector; and if he...
- Departmental Correspondence
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application is being considered for persons (details supplied). [31094/22]
- Third Level Admissions
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new European Union undergraduate entrants into Trinity College on a full-time basis since 2006, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation for the National Apprentice Office for 2022; the total number of employees currently; the anticipated number of employees...
- Departmental Schemes
174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of opening the Student Access Fund to non-domestic students. [31156/22]
- Departmental Bodies
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sought a report from the new Student Grant Appeals Board since coming into office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/22]
- Departmental Reports
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he plans to publish the National Training Fund expenditure report for 2020; if there has been a delay to the usual publication; and if he...
- Departmental Expenditure
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to each higher education institution through the access premium weighting as part of core funding for each year since...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will assist or advise the way a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary can obtain their ANCO certificate of apprenticeship...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Priorities
182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that her Department is taking in response to the recent increase in homophobic and transphobic attacks in Dublin....
- Departmental Staff
184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an employment issue will be addressed for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31283/22]
- Department of Health
- Community Development Projects
185. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to calls from staff and management in organisations (details supplied) regarding pay, contracts and job security; if his...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
187. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31273/22]
- Thalidomide Victims Compensation
188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to a compensation package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31036/22]
- Departmental Strategies
189. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home support and homecare within the plans for Sláintecare; the timelines envisaged for the introduction of a statutory homecare scheme; and...
- Home Help Service
191. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home help for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31043/22]
- Health Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 616 of 3 February 2021, the number of cancer patients who saw a consultant in 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if he will make a...
- General Practitioner Services
194. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no general practitioner in Newcastle, County Dublin currently accepting patients with a medical...
- Health Services Staff
195. To ask the Minister for Health the start date for a dietitian within the north Kerry CAMHS team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31064/22]
- Mental Health Services
196. To ask the Minister for Health the current resources within the north Kerry CAMHS team noting those shared from other teams or areas and those which are full-time resources for north Kerry;...
- Medicinal Products
197. To ask the Minister for Health the work that his Department and the HSE are undertaking in order that 35 children with cystic fibrosis whose age and genotype were not included in the initial...
- Home Care Packages
198. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of a statutory right to homecare as outlined in the Programme for Government; the proposed timetable for the introduction of...
- Abortion Services
201. To ask the Minister for Health further to a reply received by a person (details supplied) from the HSE on 20 May 2022 in which it was claimed that a majority of abortion providers within...
- Healthcare Policy
203. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the implementation of a national genetics and genomics medicine network as promised in the Programme for Government; and if...
- Hospital Services
204. To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department is supporting the medical genetics service in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin as committed to in the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
206. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for out-patient and in-patient appointments with clinical geneticists and genetic counsellors respectively; the plans, if any, that...
- Health Service Executive
207. To ask the Minister for Health if genetic data collected by an organisation (details supplied) over recent years has been shared with the HSE; if not, when this data will be shared; and if...
- Healthcare Policy
208. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to implementing a programme similar to a Finnish research project in Ireland (details supplied) in which the genetic make-up of...
- Medical Cards
209. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be reinstated on the dentist medical card scheme without having to proceed through the tedious application process again...
- Dental Services
210. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be reinstated on the dentist medical card scheme without having to proceed through the tedious application process again...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
212. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 25 May 2022 (details supplied), the advice that National Immunisation Advisory Committee would provide in such...
- Health Services
213. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a BreastCheck service is available within a reasonable distance for women living in County Leitrim (details supplied); and if he will...
- Hospital Overcrowding
215. To ask the Minister for Health the investigations that HIQA has carried out into the decisions made by senior HSE management to close capacity in the health service that has directly led to...
- Care Services
217. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person (details supplied) has been informed by the HSE that it is without funding to provide the necessary transport to enable them to attend...
- Healthcare Policy
218. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that his Department has given to banning the sale of flavoured vape products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31174/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
220. To ask the Minister for Health the directions that were given by his Department to HSE senior managers who were controlling the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine programme to patient and...
- Health Services
221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the sudden closure of Castlemartyr health centre; if the services provided there will be recommencing at that location; the...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
222. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatments which have been ordered to date; the number that have been delivered; the schedule for...
- Health Services
224. To ask the Minister for Health if an immediate BreastCheck appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at University Hospital Waterford. [31190/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
225. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1551 of 26 April 2022, if persons who are working for an organisation (details supplied) which is part funded by the HSE,...
- Health Services
226. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated timeline for the introduction of a statutory right to homecare, as outlined in the Programme for Government; the current status of the...
- Ambulance Service
228. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1825, 1826 and 1827 of 26 April 2022 based on the ambulance data provided the number of patients transferred from each...
- Health Services
229. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31279/22]
- Medical Cards
230. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made for a discretionary medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Home Care Packages
231. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the introduction of the homecare-based policies in Sláintecare; if these policies will be supported by the HSE’s...
- Health Services
232. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the newly established HSE Obstetric Event Support Team given the statutory role of HIQA to investigate, monitor and institute compliance...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Fisheries Protection
235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that he intends to support coastal communities who have demonstrated the need for increased mackerel quota; when his...
- Brexit Supports
236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if large size entities will be included in the Brexit processing capital investment scheme or will it be restricted to SMEs (details...
- Fisheries Protection
237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will sign off the energy crisis fund to support fishermen with ever increasing operating costs and send these proposals to...
- Agriculture Schemes
238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31157/22]
- Agriculture Industry
241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the law surrounding the transfer of equines changed on 26 April 2016 on the Dáil record (details supplied); and if he...
- Fisheries Protection
242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for the Brexit inshore fisheries business model adjustment scheme (details supplied);; and if he will...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
243. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that a local authority (details supplied) provided for not drawing down the full allocation of local improvement scheme...
- Equality Issues
246. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the measures that her Department has taken to ensure that existing community infrastructure is...
